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5/17/16
Lecture 13: Female Gangs
First female gang members were associated with the Irish Street gangs
There are no female prison gangs in the US
Females have been a part of the gang culture for over 100 hundred years
Initially it was believed that they w

04/05/2016
History and Culture
-Quiz Thursday next week
-1970s: street ethics also developed
Dont commit crimes in your hood
Never involve innocent people like women and children
Schools are neutral, as well as churches, stores and movie theaters
If y

04/05/2016
Next Tuesday is an electronic lecture
May move the quiz from next Thursday to the following week
Hard rap has some common themes
Police are out to destroy the black man
Violence against women is ok
Because of their social position, violence

Lecture 2
03/29/2016
History and Culture
-Zoot suit riots lasted 7 days
Second night, anybody wearing zoot suits were beat up and jailed
Third night, over 2,000 military soldiers stripped those wearing zoot
suits, burned them, and then beat them up. LAP

Lecture 1
03/29/2016
Video
-People want to belong to an organization where they are respected,
feared, and there is opportunity for advancement so they join a gang
-Tattoos made it easy to get in, but hard to get out
-Largest gangs (MS13, 18th street, Lat

04/05/2016
Female gangs
Primary reason girls leave to join gangs is because of a dysfunctional
home
There is a greater risk for them to be victimized by violence
Motorcycle gangs
Girls are treated like property
Gang initiations can include rape after pr

04/05/2016
Not on the quiz for Thursday
Female Gangs
-Most join for different reasons than men
-1800s and 1900s immigrant life wasnt easy
-First female gangs in America were associates with Irish
street gangs
-There are no female prison gangs in America

04/05/2016
Quiz Thursday
Goths
-Came up in the 80s
-Wore white make up, and were into the occult
-Largest group is in Monterrey
-Two types of vampires
Blood drinking vampires (believe they will have eternal life)
called the Renfield syndrome;
Psychic va

04/05/2016
Quiz moved to Thursday week 6
Rodney King
-Most students feel that it was excessive force and police
-90% of people feel that it was excessive
-Under influence of PCP
-Riots started in 1992
People living in LA referred to it as rebellion or up

04/05/2016
Black Gangs
-Black gangs started in LA in 1920s
-Post WWII, black image changed
First party crews were black street gangs of 1950s
house parties and dances were big
only requirement was that you had to be from the same area
-Smaller black st

05/24/2016
Culture
Latino gangster girls: somewhat boyish looking
Asian gangster girls: cant tell them unless you look very close. Had
tattoos on ankles or hidden because they werent supposed to have
them. Choose particular color, length of hair to show

Domestic Gangs
Week 1
03/29/16 -Tues
Breeding gangs of all gangs begin with an excluded group probably bc of class
distinction, bias, and racism
Latin kings did not start in CA,gang behaviors can be traced back to colonial americas in
1760s
The first st g

4/21/16
Lecture 7:
Sir Robert Peele (father of modern day law enforcement) nine tenants, one tenant is police are the
community and the community are the police
Gang clothing can and does change, some gangsters go low pro
Tattoos can be an extension of gr

4/5/16
Lecture 3:
1970 - Street rivalries intensify; guns are being used more frequently. The traditional jump in is more
violent and now may involve serious crime
Commit a crime or crime in accepted
By this time most Mexican street gang members consider

4/12/16
Lecture 5:
Green light list people who have a hit out on them (hard candy slang for death)
Prison street gang connection
Juvenile hall high school , prison like college for gang members
1998 nationally every state in US reports presence of street

4/26/16
Lecture 8:
The 1992 LA riots are referred to as the rebellion or uprising by Blood and Crip gang members
Wilding group mentality about violence
The riots started social change as well as a change in attitude toward the police and within LAPD
Along

3/31/16
Lecture 2:
Zoot suit riots last 7 days
(zoot suits used to compete with military men who stole Latina women?) (zoot suits were a different
form of uniform used to pick up Latinas?)
November 1943 appeals started,
Anthony Quinn, Orson wells, Rita Ha

4/19/16
Lecture 6:
Black gangs were in la in 1920s
1920s Los Angeles, first black gangs
1930s all about image, loose leadership, small time crimes
1940s few problems with other street gangs, low profile
1950s new type of black gangs formed in LA social gr